Side-bar wagon



(No Model.)

' E. W. FANGI-IER.

SIDE. BAR WAGON, No 251,199. Patented Dec. 20,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMERY \V. FANCHER, OF CANTON, CONNECTICUT.

SIDE-BAR WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,199, dated December 20, 1881. Application filed October 7, 1881. (No model.)

- where- Figure 1 is a bottom view of a wagon-box and so much of the appurtenant gear as involves the application of my improvement.

Fig. 2 is a view of said gear in cross-section on plane 00 :20. Fig. 3 is a detail view of arm and pin.

The improvement is in that class of wagons known as .side-bar Wagons, the practical advantages of which are such that they have become firmly fixed in popular favor; and it is the object of my improvement to retain all the present advantages incident to the use of the side bals, and to add thereto a set of springs, which shall give the wagon great additional elasticity, and at the same time be particularly adapted for attachment to the side bars.

The letter (t denotes a wagon-box; b b, side bars, which may be attached to the runninggear by the springs c c.

The letters d d d d each denote a coil-spring, with its outer end pivotally attached to the side bar and with its inner end formed into a square (or many-sided) socket, through which runs the square pin 0, provided with the arm 0, which lies flatly on a cross-brace on the bottom of the wagon-box, the purpose of the arm 6 being to prevent the rotation of the pin 0, and thereby get the action of the coil-spring.

The letter 0 denotes an arm similar to a, but removable from the 'pin 6, and provided with a square socket to fit on the square-end of same. The two arms 6 e are screwed fast to the cross-brace on the bottom of the wagonbox. The cross-brace is moitised out for the reception of the coil of the spring.

It is the action of coil-springs in connection with side bars that I desire to attain, and my claim is not intended to include other springs or end attachments.

I claim as my invention- In combination, the wagon-body a, the square pins 6, fixedly attached thereto, the side bars b b, and the springs d d d d, coiled at one end around the pins 6 and pivoted at the other end to the side bars, all substantially as described.

EMERY W. FANCHER.

Witnesses WM. E. SIMoNDs, CHAS. L. BURDETT. 

